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Puritan Witch by Peni Jo RennerPublication date: September 17, 2013 by iUniverseFormats: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
On a cold night in 1692, two young girls are caught up in the
divining games of a slave woman-and then begin to act very strangely
when the game goes wrong. Suddenly, Salem Village is turned upside down
as everyone fears that witches may be involved. Six months later, as
news of the girls’ strange behavior becomes known, fear and suspicion
overwhelm a nearby farming community, pitting neighbors against
neighbors and turning friends into enemies. When Rebecca Eames makes one
careless utterance during a verbal attack on her family, she is falsely
accused of witchcraft. After her fate is decided by three magistrates,
Rebecca must endure a prison sentence during which she and her fellow
captives have no choice but to valiantly struggle to find humanity and
camaraderie among dire conditions. In this novel based on a true story, a
woman wrongly imprisoned during t…

Jaspar's War by Cym LowellPublication date: March 1, 2014 by Rosemary Beach Press LLCSource: Publisher via Meryl L. Moss Media Relations Description from Goodreads:Greenwich, Connecticut
socialite Jaspar Moran has it all-a magnificent estate, two beautiful
children and a loving husband, Trevor, serving as the Secretary of the
Treasury. Protected, admired and living in the lap of luxury, Jaspar is
reeling from the news that his government jet has crashed just as her
children vanish without a trace. An ominous message warns her to keep
silent about her husband's role in the President's economic plan. Or
else. Determined to save her children, she'll go to hell and back, form
alliances with assassins, traitors and Mafioso, and commit unspeakable
acts-if that's what it takes. With alarms sounding around the world,
hunted from all sides, and unsure of who to trust, she finds herself
depending on a mysterious figure without an identity. Jaspar journeys
from th…

The Collector of Dying Breaths by M.J. RosePublication date: April 8, 2014 by Atria BooksSource: Publisher via Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours for an honest reviewSynopsis:
From one of America’s most imaginative storytellers comes a
passionate tale of love and treachery, spanning the days of Catherine de
Medici’s court to the twenty-first century and starring a woman drawn
back, time and again, to the past.

In 1533, an Italian orphan with an uncanny knack for creating
fragrance is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici’s
perfumer. To repay his debt, over the years René le Florentine is
occasionally called upon to put his vast knowledge to a darker purpose:
the creation of deadly poisons used to dispatch the Queen’s rivals.

But it’s René’s other passion—a desire to reanimate a human breath,
to bring back the lives of the two people whose deaths have devastated
him—that incites a dangerous treasure hunt five centuries later. That’s
when Jac L’Etoile—suffering…

Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline WinspearPublication date: Reprint edition April 8, 2014 by Harper PerennialSource: Publisher via TLC Book Tours for an honest reviewSynopsis:
London, 1933. Two months after Usha Pramal’s body is discovered in
the waters of a city canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns
to Maisie Dobbs for help. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests,
but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full investigation. Usha
had been staying at an ayah’s hostel, a refuge for Indian women. As
Maisie learns, Usha was different from the hostel’s other residents. But
with this discovery comes new danger, as a fellow lodger who was close
to Usha is found murdered.
As Maisie is pulled deeper into an unfamiliar yet captivating
subculture, her investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business
of a previous case, and by a growing desire to see more of the world.
At the same time, her lover, James Compton, gives her an ultimatum she
cann…

The Idea of Him by Holly PetersonPublication date: April 1, 2014 by William Morrow

Excerpt:

CHAPTER 19 FOCUSED AND FRUSTRATED
He had no doubt
betrayed “us” again in some form or fashion because things were going on around
me that he was lying about. He would do that in the future. I would either
smile through or ignore the signs in the future. I would feel angry and lost
and alone in the future. I would tear up photos again in the future that
represented romantic ideals.
“It doesn’t mean
what, Wade?”
He didn’t answer
my last question; I just heard his rattled breathing on the other end of the
line. I looked around at the mess in front of me. How the hell was I supposed
to finish my work with this bizarre, awkward, unfinished, hurtful conversation
looping in my head?
“Wade,” I said. “I
can’t do this now.” I
hung up and suddenly I was back in that mangled plane, in the snow, desperate
for a protector. Was Wade just giving more of the same unsafe
feeling I’d wanted to get away from? And …

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